Before picking Mr Habibie, Golkar had tried to deflect criticism by including him in a short-list of five possible presidential candidates, including the head of the armed forces, the party chairman, the economics minister and a popular sultan from central Java.

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Carl Levin, D-Michigan, the top Democrat on the Armed Services panel, stopped short of endorsing the proposal but said he would review any such plan that will help the nation "make a clean break" from the controversy.

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Allen, and led now by interim-head Nader Pourhassan and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Richard Trauger, CytoDyn epitomizes how many new medical therapies are developed today, in virtual (read, decentralized) laboratories, by companies with short ledger sheets, and armed with two or three sharp concepts with strong therapeutic and bottom-line potential.

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The Zapatists' armed uprising in January 1994, though it led to some 150 deaths, was short-lived.

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And when short-term needs arise, such as the evacuation of British citizens from Lebanon last month, the armed services have to meet them.

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